The International Criminal Police Organization is assessing software that matches samples of speech in phone calls or social media to voice recordings in a law...IEEE SpectrumFrom ACM TechNews | May 21, 2018

Tornado survivors often compare the terrifying, deafening roars of a twister's furious winds to the sound of a freight train. But storms also emit sounds that are...IEEE SpectrumFrom ACM News | May 9, 2018

In 1981, Richard Feynman suggested that a quantum computer might be able to simulate the evolution of quantum systems much better than classical computers. Except...IEEE SpectrumFrom ACM News | April 18, 2018

Solar cells convert light to electricity. Image sensors also convert light to electricity. If you could do them both at the same time in the same chip, you'd have...IEEE SpectrumFrom ACM News | April 13, 2018

Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have used electrical stimulation and neural patterns to improve the storage of new information in the brain, which...IEEE SpectrumFrom ACM TechNews | April 12, 2018

In a development that could lead to washable, sensor-laden smart clothes and wearable electronics, researchers at the City University of Hong Kong have molded a...IEEE SpectrumFrom ACM TechNews | April 11, 2018

The University of Illinois' Naresh Shanbhag is pushing for a new computer architecture that blends computing and memory so devices can be smarter without consuming...IEEE SpectrumFrom ACM TechNews | April 3, 2018

If John von Neumann were designing a computer today, there's no way he would build a thick wall between processing and memory. At least, that's what computer engineer Naresh...IEEE SpectrumFrom ACM News | March 30, 2018